GRETA Associati (Venice,
Italy), Intesa Sanpaolo (Milan,
Italy),Lince (Milan,
Italy), Finanziaria Internazionale (Conegliano,
Italy), Financial Innovations
(Milan, Italy) and Banca d'Italia(Venice,
Italy) are co-sponsors of a Conference to be held in Venice on
September 24 - 25, 2009. The objective of the Conference is to
bring together academics, practitioners and PhD students working in the
area of credit risk modeling to discuss credit risk at time of
financial crisis and the impact of macroeconomic factors on pricing
risky debt, financial distress, recovery rates, and banking stability.
The Conference will provide an opportunity for participants engaged in
research at the forefront of this area to discuss both the causes and
implications of recent events in financial markets and may, in turn,
suggest fruitful directions for future research. The Conference,
organised under the auspices of the Department
of Economics of the Ca'Foscari University Venice and ABI - Italian
Banking Association, is the eighth of
a series dedicated to various aspects of credit risk.

The
organizers encourage submissions of papers on any topic within the
overall theme of the conference and in the following areas in
particular:

Impact of the financial crisis and banking instability on
credit markets;

Credit
risk and business cycles;

The
interplay between the real and financial sides of the macroeconomy;

Modeling
the economics of financial crises.

The final program will include both submitted
and invited papers. Acceptances received so far from invited speakers
include Martin Hellwig(Max
Planck Institute), Francesco Garzarelli
(Goldman Sachs), Christopher Mayer
(Columbia Business School) and Kenneth J. Singleton (Stanford
University). The
Conference will also feature a panel discussion on researchers' and
practitioners’ views of the major outstanding problems.